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The Telegram Crisis was a diplomatic crisis between Denmark and Germany in October and November 1942, during the German occupation of Denmark. The crisis was triggered by a telegram from King Christian X of Denmark to Adolf Hitler , acknowledging Hitler's congratulations on the occasion of the King's 72nd birthday on September 26, 1942.
The Zimmermann telegram (or Zimmermann note or Zimmermann cable) was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office on January 17, 1917, that proposed a military contract between the German Empire and Mexico if the United States entered World War I against Germany.
The Höfle telegram (or Hoefle telegram) is a cryptic one-page document, discovered in 2000 among the declassified World War II archives of the Public Record Office in Kew, England.
Brother of paratrooper killed in World War II at Battle of the Bulge remembers the day in 1945 his family got the telegram with the bad news.
The heliograph was standard military equipment as late as World War II. Wireless telegraphy developed in the early 20th century became important for maritime use, and was a competitor to electrical telegraphy using submarine telegraph cables in international communications.
France's arrest of Telegram CEO Pavel Durov is a mysterious story with ... photo, and video messages to audiences of different sizes — you can talk to a single user or a lot of users at the same ...
According to Speer, the telegram initiated a crisis in the form of Hitler's psychological breakdown, which precipitated the political disintegration of military command and control as the Reich collapsed. A number of telegrams from Göring to various officers that referred to his invocation of Hitler's secret testament sent Hitler into a rage.
The telegram started traveling and was relayed by 16 operators across the globe and circled back to its origin in 16.5 minutes. See the gallery below showing the evolution of communication technology: